Motivational Quotes

Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

10.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

11.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

12.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

14.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

15.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

16.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

17.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

18.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

19.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

26.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

29.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

31.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

33.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

34.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

35.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

36.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

37.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

38.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

39.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

41.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

42.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

45.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

46.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

47.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

48.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

49.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

50.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar